Definition of allotted day
28.29Where an order allots a specified number of days to a stage or stages of a bill, a further provision usually1 defines an allotted day as ‘any day (other than a Friday) on which the bill is put down as the first government order of the day’. In those cases where the order provides for the completion of proceedings at the same sitting (see above) or on specific days, no such definition is required.
The day on which an allocation of time order has been passed has been used as the first allotted day of the bill to which it related.2
When required, provision has been made for setting out the changes in the timetable which would be necessary in the case of an ‘allotted day’ falling on a Friday.3